Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

One of my parishioners told me last week that a relative of hers is looking into Orthodox Christianity. When I asked her why she was look...

I did a forty day memorial recently for a woman who died at a relatively young age (by today’s standards) who had been an immigrant to Ca...

I think I have a messiah complex. The reason I say this is because I often feel that if I only did something different, if I could only disc...

"I am not afraid of hell, and I don't think about Paradise.  I just ask God to be merciful to the entire world and to myself."...

For a while, when I was in my 30s, I was into rock climbing.  I never scaled any really large faces, although I did do a few three pitch ...

In 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, St. Paul talks about the end of time, when Christ will come again to the earth.  First those who have died,...

St. Theophan the Recluse, in The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It , stresses the importance of zeal, which he describes as our ...

May God help us to pray as Ruby prayed! Now is the time to forgive all those who do not know what they are doing.

During Lent, the Church reads Genesis, Proverbs and Isaiah.  The New Testament is not read during Lent, except on the weekends, when th...

Sister Vassa in her post on the Sunday of the Last Judgement says that the fear of God, when it is healthy, is manifest in us by the fea...